He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing.
Annie Lee Cooper, well played by Winfrey, is shown trying but failing to register to vote.
But failing that, he advised pro-immigration reform Republican candidates such as former Gov. Jeb Bush to just skip the state.
They recorded 10,549 graves on or near the railway in 144 cemeteries, failing to locate only 52 graves.
So by failing, I go audition for Any Given Sunday [and] things turn out right.
We visited him at Winchester, and found him sorely old and with failing wits.
Since we cannot reach all of them this week, we must try to reach seven; and failing in that, suppose we say one?
She's been failing all along, you know, and she has just cried herself down.
Wotan's heart ached at the thought of failing this friend he loved so well.
She is the daughter of an old and failing man, whose days are near their close.
"defect, fault," 1580s, verbal noun from fail (v.).
early 13c., from Old French falir (11c., Modern French faillir) "be lacking, miss, not succeed," from Vulgar Latin *fallire, from Latin fallere "to trip, cause to fall;" figuratively "to deceive, trick, dupe, cheat, elude; fail, be lacking or defective." Related: Failed; failing. Replaced Old English abreoðan.